The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-12
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

OOMElES ltA
The entire business portion of Lamonte
Mo-, was destroyed by fire on the 31st ult.
Snow fell all through the southwestern
portion of Virginia on the 31st ult
AMANDA JOHNSON (colored), living near In
dianapolls, Ind, received information on
the 3lst ult to the effect that she had fallen
heir to valuable plantation in Kentucky
and large sum of money, left her by her
old master in slavery days
THREE buildings in St Louis We're
wrecked on the night Of the 31st ult. by
mysterious explosion, and six persons were
killed and three others were seriously in
jured.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 31st ult re-
celved the peace commissioners from Great
Britain, who desire his cooperation in Sc
curing treaty between that country and
the United States which shall provide for
the amicable settlement of disputes by az
bitration.
A COTTON mill at Exeter, N. H., was dam
aged by fire on the 31st ult to the extent of
100000.
The receipts of the Government for Oc-
tober amounted to $31 1903, 172 and the OK
penditures to $12, 474, G52, being an excess
Of receipts of $40, 1928, 500
One of the mills OF the American Cotton
seed Oil Company at Cincinnati was des-
IOyeu ny HTe on Une OlSG OiG, the loss
reaching 100000 =, 3D.,
track west of indianapolis, Ind on the list
ult. carriage containing Herman Hugo
and DR.. A j. Miller was struck by freight
locomotive and both men were killed
AN audacious thief on the 31st ult stole
$500 from the office of the park COM
missioners in Buffalo, N Y, during the
temporary absence Of the official in charge,
and made good his escape.
AN explosion on the 31st ult in the At
lantic dynamite works near McCainsville, N.
j., wrecked one of the packing houses and
instantly killed four men.
By a runaway on the 31st ult at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, two men and a lady were thrown
from wagon and fatally injured
AT Cincinnati on the 31st ult Mrs Katie
Miller threw her nine-year-old daughter
from third-story window and instantly
leaped after her, and both were killed The
woman was insane
WHILE Maggie Sherman (colored) was tes-
tifying in court on the 31st ult. at Air
mount, Miss, against Sell Boyle (white),
charg ng him with an indecent assault, the
prisoner rose and shot her through the
heart with revolver, killing her instantly,
and then made his escape
WILLIAM SHALER of Ithaca, n Y, blew
his wlfe's brains out with a pistol on the
31st ult and then sent bullet through his
own brain. Domestic trouble caused the
deed.
In q report on the 31st ult to the Sec
Rotary of War General Duane chief of en-
gineers, points to the necessity for improve
1lents in our sea-coast and lake front de-
fenses and estimates that it will require
90, 234, 900 to put them in proper con-
dition.
The. 5public-debt. statement on the list
shows the total debt to be $1,675, O76,715;
cash in treasury, 500, 75S, 7O4; debt less
cash in treasury, 81 ,23S, 692, 7O1. Decrease
during October, SIG, 1913, 695 Decrease
since June 80, 1887, Sic, 736, O35.
HENRY MILLER's two little children were
burned to death at Oakland, Neb, on the
LIST. The parents were not at home and the
little ones set the house on fire.
ADv1CEs of the LIST say that George King,
living near Lamara, La, gave a dance and
supper at his es.d3nce, and soon after the
feast all the guests were taken Violently
sick, and seven had died and twenty others
were. dangerously ill. How the food be-
came poisoned was a mystery.
LOUIS L1NGG, Adolph Fischer and George
Engie, three Of the condemned Chicago An
archists, sent letters to Governor Oglesby
VIA
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers adjourned their convention in Chicago
on the 1st after a session of nearly two
weeks 80"
AS THERE is no money with which to pay
for the expenses of the necessary surveys
and examinations, the action OF Congress
last session for the distribution of lands in
severaltys to Indians can not now be carried
into effect
MAMIE ADAMS, daughter of Rev. F. w.
Adams, of Elkhart, Ind, committed suicide
by poison on the LIST because of some false
gossip she had heard concerning herself
ALFRED STONE, of Chicago, one of the
crew OF the steamer Vernon recently
wrecked on Lake Michigan, and the only
one OF the fifty persons on bolrd known to
have been saved, arrived in Sturgeon Bay,
Wis, on the LIST He Was found on a raft,
where he had been fifty hours without food
The shutdown of oil-wells, manipulated
by the Producers Protective Association,
and the Standard Oil Company, went into
effect on the 1st and, it was alleged would
continue eighteen months.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, of Illinois, on the 1st
issued proclamation designating Thurs
day; November "a, as day of THANKSGIVING.
In his annual report on the LIST the Gov
ernor OF Alaska puts the value of the tax
able property of the Territory at $4,000
600. The white population numbered only
five thousand
The house of T. s. Oliver, at East Fork,
Ark, was destroyed by fire on the 1st and
his three little grandchildren, who were
alone in the building persisted in the
flames
The winter packing season opened in
Chicago on the 1st Hogs were plenty at
the stock yards, and the best droves were
fifty cents per hundred pounds higher than
a year ago.
AN engine exploded near Hack Berry,
Cal, on the LIST, killing Engineer Schroeder,
Fireman Long and Brakeman Trapp.
IHE strike of the union book and lob
printers in Chicago for a nine-hour day oc-
Cured on the LIST. There were 446 men
who quit work, out of a total of 700 union
men employed
A GALE swept the New Jersey coast on the
LIST, doing great damage to shipping.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury at
Washington decided on the LIST that clerks
in the. first and second-class post-ofices
We're not entitled to extra compensation
for delivering special delivery letters He
held that such extra compensation could